Festival in Visayas

The Ati-Atihan Festival

☆held annually in January in honor of the Santo

Niño (Infant Jesus),

☆concluding on the third Sunday, in the island

and town of Kalibo, Aklan in the Philippines.

☆The name Ati-Atihan means “ to be like Arts”

or “ make belive Arti’s”.
●The people attend masses for the Santo Niño, and benefit dances
sponsored by government organizations.
●The formal opening mass emphasize the festival‘s religious event.
●The procession begins with a rhythmic drumbeat, and dances parading
along the street. The second day begins at dawn with a rosary procession,
which ends with a community mass, and procession.
● The phrase “ Hala Bira! Pwera Pasma!” is originally associated with the Sto.
Niño Ati-Atihan Festival as the revelers and devotees keep on going with the
festivities all over town from morning to the week hours of the next morning,
rain or shine, for one week or even more.
● They believe that the miraculous child Jesus will protect them from harm
and illness
●The highlight of the festival occurs on the last day, the third Sunday of
January, when groups representing different tribes complete for tourists’
attention and prizes.
BINIRAYAN FESTIVAL
●The Binirayan festival is an event celebrated
in the province of Antique in the Philippines.
●”Binirayan” literally means “where they
sailed to” 3rd weekend of april
●First celebrated on January 11-13, 1974
● The festival was conceived by Governor Evelio Javier, and first
celebrated on January 11-13,1974.In 1975, the festival was moved
to April 25-27, but in the succeeding years was celebrated in
December to coincide with the Christmas celebration in the
celebrated in 1980, 1984-1987, and 1995 due to political crises.
●Consequently, the dates of the festival in the west Visayas region
has suffered inconsistency with the every change of leadership of
the province. In 2002, however, the Provincial board of Antique
passed a resulotion fixing the date of the celebration in April, and
when the management of the festival was given to Binirayan
Foundation, Inc. The dates were set on the third
DINAGYANG FESTIVAL
●The Dinagyang Festival is a religious and cultural festival in
Iloilo City,Philippines.
●held on the fourth Sunday of January, or right after the
Sinulog in Cebu and the Ati-Atihan Festival in Kalibo, Aklan .
● it is held both to honor the Santo Niño and to celebrate the
arrival on Panay of Malay settlers and the subsequent selling
of the island to them by the Atis.
●Dinagyang began after Rev.Fr. Ambrosio Galindez, the first Filipino
Rector of the Agustinian Community and Parish Prish introduced the
devotion to Santo Niño in November 1967 after observing the Ati-
Atihan letit in the province brow to estemdeem El as a gift to the
parish of San Jose. The faithful, led by members of Conrad’s Del Santo
Niño de Cebu, Illinois Chapter, worked to give the image a fitting
reception starting at the Iloilo Airport and parading down the street
of Iloil”.
●In the beginning, the observance of the feast was confined to the
parish. The Conrad’s patterned the celebration on the Ati-Atihan of
bajay, aklan where natives dances in the streets, their bodies covered
with soot and ashes, to simulate the Atis dancing to celebrate the sale
of Pinay.It was these tribal groups who were the prototype of the
present festival.
●A participant of Dinagyang Festival, In1977, the Marcos
government ordered the various regions of the Philippines to
come up with festival‘s or celebrations that cloud boost
tourism and development.The City of iloilo readily identified
the iloilo Ati-Atihan as its project.At the same time the local
parish could no longer handle the growing challenges of the
festival.
●Dinagyang was voted aa the best Tourism Event for 2006,
2007 and 2008 by the Association of Tourism Officers in the
Philippines. It is the first Festival in the world to get the support
of the United Nation for the promotion of the Mollennium
Development Goals, and cited By the Asian Development Bank
as Best practices on government,private sector & NGO
cooperatives.
 MASSKARA FESTIVAL
(Hiligaynon:Pista sang Masskara, Filipino: Festival ng
Masaskara) is an annual festival held every third weekend of
October in Bacollpd, Philippines
▪ Genre. Parade, street dancing
▪ Dates. Third week of October
▪ Location. Bacolod City, Philippines
▪ Years active carnival 1980 – percent
 ●He festival first began in 1980 during a period of crisis. The province relied
on sugar cane as its primary agricultural crop, and the price of sugar was at
all time low due to yhe introduction of sugar substitutes like high fructose
(corn syrup) in yhe United States. This was the first Masskara Festival and a
time of tragedy; on April 22 of that year, the inter-island vessel MV DIN JUAN
carrying many Negrenses, including those belongings to prominent families
in Bacolod City , collided with the tanker Tacloban City and anak.an
estimated 700 lives were lost in the tragedy.
● In the midst of these tragic events, the city’s artists, local Governments and
civic group decided to hold a festival of smiles,because the city at that time
was also known as the City’s of smiles. They reasoned that s festival was also
a good opportunity to pull the residents out for the pervasive gloomy
atmosphere. The initial Festival was therefore, a declaration by the people of
the city that no matter how tough and bad the times were, Bacolod City is
going to pull through,survive, and in the end triumph.
PINTADOS-KASADYAAN FESTIVAL
● Is a cultural-religious celebration in tacloban based on the body-
painting traditions of the ancient tattooed pintados” Warriors.
● In 1986 The Pintados Foundation, Inc. Was founded by the people of
Tacloban to organize this festival in honor of Sr. Santo Niño.
● Years later, it was moved with the Kasadyaan Festival which is always
held on June 29
●The Pintados Festival of Tacloban City is a Filipino Festival with
its own unique flavor. This Pintados Festival recalls Pre-Spanish
history of the native leytenos from wars,epics and folk religions.
The most expected aspect of the Pintados Festival are the
festival dances, painted from head to toe with design that look
like armor to resemble the tattooed warriors of told. During the
course of the Pintados Festival, dancers whose bodies are
printed in an amazing array of colors fill the streets of
Tacloban City. At first sight, they many seem outrageous as
grown men pour into the streets decorated in such dazzling
colors as luminous blue or neon green. But as one gets used to
this and sees the dances depicted, one gets a glimpse if the
history of the people that once lived on the island of Leyte so
long ago.
 SINULOG FESTIVAL
●Sinulog festival, is an annual cultural and religious Festival held on
yhe third Sunday of January in Cebu City, centre of the Santo Niño
Catholic celebration in the Philippines.
●One of the main highlights of the festival is the grand street parade
which lasts for 9to 12 hours,
●The word Sinulog comes from the Cebuano adverb sulog which
roughly means “like water current movement,”it describes the
forward-backward movement of the sinusoidal dance.
The Sinulog dance contingents are dressed in bright
colored costumes dancing gracefully to the rhythm of
drums, trumpet and nite songs.Smaller versions of the
festival are held in various parts of the province, also to
celebrate and honor a “Sinulog sa Kabataan” performed
by the youths Of Cebu a week before the parade.
Recently, the festival has been promoted as a tourist
attraction, with a contest featuring contingents from
various parts of the country.